Water storage dams play an important part in the collection and purification of water destined
for human consumption. However, the nutrient rich silt in these dams promotes rapid growth
of aquatic plants which tend to ...

Cyanobacteria contain phycocyanin a light harvesting pigment found to have numerous biotechnological applications, such as: a natural colorant in food and cosmetics, fluorescent tags employed in clinical and immunological ...

South African edible oil processing plants produce approximately 3 x 105 tonnes of oil
annually with up to 3 tonnes of water for every tonne of oil produced. Wastewater that
contains oil extracts varies in organic loading ...

Protein engineering has been a valuable tool in creating enzyme variants that are capable of withstanding the extreme environments of industrial processes. Xylanases are a family of hemicellulolytic enzymes that are used ...

In this work, the thermodynamics of ternary liquid mixtures involving carboxylic acids with sulfolane, hydrocarbons including cycloalkane, and alcohols are presented. In South Africa, Sasol is one of the leading companies ...

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology where specially selected and engineered metal-accumulating plants are used for bioremediation. Amaranthus dubius (marog or wild spinach) is a popular nutritious leafy vegetable ...

Ruminants diets in most developing countries are based on fibrous feeds, mainly mature pastures and crop residues. These feeds are unbalanced and particularly deficient in protein, minerals and vitamins and are highly ...

Protein engineering technologies, such as directed evolution and DNA recombination, are often used to modify enzymes on a genetic level for the creation of useful industrial catalysts. Pre-treatment of paper pulps with ...

The depletion of global energy supplies coupled with an ever increasing need for energy and the effects of global warming have warranted the search for alternate renewable sources of fuel such as biodiesel. First generation ...

Ceratatheca triloba (Bernh.) E. Mey. Ex Hook. f. is one of four species that is common to the summer rainfall areas in South Africa, especially the grasslands. It is used in traditional medicine to treat stomach cramps, ...

The objective of the study was to conduct a situational analysis of elderly people on state
pension living in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. The research focused on the socioeconomic
status, dietary intake, nutritional ...

Spirulina is a blue-green, multicellular, filamentous cyanobacterium that can grow to sizes of 0.5 millimetres in length. It is an obligate photoautotroph and has a pH growth range from 8.3 to 11.0.The large-scale production ...

Production of numerous biotechnologically-important products such as
threonine is based on cultivation of bacterial cultures. Infection of these
bacterial cultures by bacteriophages has a detrimental effect in the ...

The present work involves the interaction studies of chiral compounds with the
Human Serum Albumin (HSA) protein using computational and experimental
methods. The HSA protein has multiple binding sites that forms the ...

Aromatic heterocycles are highly important structural units found in a large number of biologically active natural compounds, pharmaceuticals and catalytic compounds. They have a crucial role in organic syntheses, which ...

Malaria, the most prevalent parasitic disease, is considered a neglected disease owing to insufficient research and development in synthesis and therapy worldwide. Therapy failures are frequent and are due to a variety of ...

In this study, we report the synthesis of three quinolone bearing imidazole derivatives 2, 3 and 4 and two quinolone bearing BODIPY dyes 5 and 7.
In the synthesis of 2, 3 and 4, the first step was the preparation of the ...

The global demand for green technology has created a need to search for microbes that can play an active role in advancing a greener and cleaner future. Microbial enzymes are nature’s keys to life and their efficiency, ...

Kluyveromyces sp. have adapted to existence in milk due to the evolution of
permeabilisation and hydrolytic systems that allow the utilisation of lactose, the sugar
most abundant in milk. Lactose hydrolysis, to equimolar ...